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Beanie, and several of the American travelers, a detail 

 of the process will be unnecessary. It- extreme 

 1. ogth was thirty-two feel six inches, including the 

 bow and stern pieces; its greatest breadth was four 

 feel ten inches, but it was only two feet nine inches 

 forward where the bowman Bat, and two feet four inches 

 behind where the steersman was placed ; and its depth 

 was one foot eleven and a quarter inches. There were 

 Dty-three hoops of thin cedar, and a layer of slen- 

 der laths of the same wood within the frame. These 

 feeble vessels of bark will carry twenty-five pieces of 

 goods, each weighing ninety pounds, exclusive of the 

 necessary provision and baggage for the crew of five 

 or six men, amounting in the whole to about three 

 thousand three hundred pounds' weight, This gi 

 lading they annually carry between the depots and the 

 posts, in the interior ; and it rarely happens that any 

 accidents occur, if they are managed by experienced 

 bowmen and steersmen, on whose skill the safety of 

 the canoe entirely depends in the rapids and difficult 

 places. When a total portage is made, these twomen 

 carry the I lanoe, and they often run with it, though its 

 weight is estimated at about three hundred pounds, 

 exclusive of the poles and oars, which arc occasionally 

 left in where the distance is BD 



July 13. — This morning Mr. Back and I had the 

 sincere gratification <>f welcoming our long separated 



